Sentence examples for stretch of western from inspiring English sources

Much of the housing will be on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, a long-neglected stretch of western Harlem.

Genoa, with Minden and Gardnerville, make up the Carson Valley in a roughly 10-mile stretch of western Nevada.

The 37th Assembly District is a stretch of western Queens, including Sunnyside, Ridgewood and parts of Woodside and Long Island City.

It lay in a stretch of western New York known as the "burned-over district" because religious fires had passed through so many times.

Concentrated in an arid stretch of western China, Uighurs have long had an uneasy coexistence with the ruling Han Chinese majority.

Rain-battered farmers throughout the stretch of western New York from Syracuse to Buffalo say they expect to lose half their crops -- worth millions of dollars -- to the worst rainy season they can remember in at least 50 years.

In the dry Southwest and the semi-arid stretches of western mountains and sea coasts, water can be in short supply.

Unless one has been accused of murdering a well-to-do intimate on Mykonos or in certain stretches of western Connecticut, the arrival of Vanity Fair generally does not set off feelings of apprehension.

But the politics of terror and assassination are probably secondary, among jihadis, to the gradual extension of their control over rural and semiurban stretches of western Pakistan — a power base that, at least in the short term, can be disrupted only by the Pakistani military.

Vast stretches of western forests by some estimates 190m acres now have loads of burnable stuff.Last August, while visiting southern Oregon at the height of the Biscuit Fire, George Bush announced a "healthy-forests initiative" aimed at reducing the risk of fire.

Now there's a third group -- the 100 or so tigers living in the semiarid stretches of western India.